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A New Hope DVD Color Correction (*unfinished project * - a mass of information) — Page 7

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I would love to see the whole movie with everyone having purple skin tones, like Image 3 on post 140. It would be called Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Purple Face Edition.

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No, He wanted them to look like lobsters, not like purple aliens, I was saying that if you could create the movie with all those purple faces... It would be crazy and hilarious at the same time to watch...

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This project has been in hibernation for a while as I figure out how it should continue, but here's a small update:

I've done a shot-by-shot correction of the Death Star explosion rather slavishly from the video of the Senator screening:

https://vimeo.com/82958022

Password: DS

Apparently the Death Star is quite blue in that shot. I suspect that the desaturation of the explosion for the DVD stems from a decision to make the Death Star a neutral gray, which then carried over to the explosion itself.

Comparison of the final shot:

Sorry about the lack of updates recently, there's been a lot of school and a lot of education happening.

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Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)

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Neverar, you have no need to apologize with work like this! This is easily the best color correction effort I've seen, since I love the look of the Senator projection so much. The warm feeling just looks great on the footage, and is such a great contrast to the cold, red look of the GOUT which I'm so used to.

Keep it up.

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Thanks, I will!

But I think that the time has come to move to a different thread. My goal was to find global settings that fix many of the problems of the film, and these have been found. It's a seven page word document right now, so I can post that here or send it to whoever is interested, just say the word.

Today saw a big test: applying these settings to the Blu-ray. The source is the 1080p disc, in all its glory. I'll let the results speak for themselves:

Fine detail:

Now the scene-by-scene (and shot by shot) correction can begin. Who knows when it will end?

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Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)

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I can't believe how blissfully unaware of the 2004 transfer's problems. I watched that transfer for 4 years! 

Seriously though, I'm liking this. It's a way of removing the over-blue without drowning the skin-tones out like Adywan.

I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.

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@NeverGreat, Did you wrote a paper about the color issues in the Star Wars 2004 master?!

BTW, Perfect color correction. Impressive.

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In your settings on page 3, for the bottom layer, there is one setting missing for the channel mixer settings.

Can you please share this missing setting?

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Here are all the settings. Disclaimer: Will not make every shot better. May make some shots worse. Anyone who goes insane attempting to successfully implement these settings has only themselves to blame.

:)

Video Layer 1 (Base Layer)

This layer controls the color and luminosity of the deep shadows.

Applied Effects:

 

Opacity:

Normal

 

Image Control:

Brightness 0

Contrast 80

Hue -100

Saturation 85

 

Channel Mixer:

Red-Red 23

Red-Green -5

Red-Blue 8

Red-Const -3

Green-Red 25

Green-Green 51

Green-Blue -22

Green Const 0

Blue-Red 0

Blue-Green -25

Blue-Blue 27

Blue-Const 0

 

Adjustments:

 

Color:

Hue 0

Lightness 0

Saturation -20

Vibrance 0

 

Gamma:

10

 

Lighting:

Brightness 40

Contrast 0

Exposure 70

Black 0

White 0

 

 

Video Layer 2 (Overlaid on Video Layer 1)

This layer in conjunction with layer 1 controls the color and luminosity of the shadows.

Applied Effects:

 

Opacity:

Screen

 

Image Control:

Brightness 0

Contrast 80

Hue 0

Saturation 85

 

Channel Mixer:

Red-Red 85

Red-Green 10

Red-Blue 10

Red-Const 0

Green-Red 0

Green-Green 75

Green-Blue -20

Green Const 0

Blue-Red -40

Blue-Green -15

Blue-Blue 150

Blue-Const 0

 

Adjustments:

 

Color:

Hue 0

Lightness 0

Saturation -20

Vibrance 0

 

Gamma:

10

 

Lighting:

Brightness 30

Contrast 0

Exposure 50

Black 0

White 0

 

 

Video Layer 3

This layer controls the color and luminosity of the midtones.

Applied Effects:

 

Opacity:

Screen

 

Image Control:

Brightness 0

Contrast 80

Hue 0

Saturation 85

 

Channel Mixer:

Red-Red 56

Red-Green -27

Red-Blue 5

Red-Const 0

Green-Red 5

Green-Green 15

Green-Blue 0

Green Const 0

Blue-Red 9

Blue-Green -44

Blue-Blue 28

Blue-Const 0

 

Adjustments:

 

Color:

Hue 0

Lightness 0

Saturation 0

Vibrance 0

 

Gamma:

15

 

Lighting:

Brightness -18

Contrast 38

Exposure 90

Black 0

White 0

 

 

Video Layer 4

This layer controls the color and luminosity of the highlights.

Applied Effects:

 

Opacity:

Screen

 

Image Control:

Brightness 0

Contrast 100

Hue 0

Saturation 100

 

Channel Mixer:

Red-Red -122

Red-Green -157

Red-Blue -200

Red-Const 0

Green-Red 8

Green-Green 55

Green-Blue 15

Green Const 0

Blue-Red 20

Blue-Green 15

Blue-Blue 60

Blue-Const 0

 

Adjustments:

 

Color:

Hue 0

Lightness 0

Saturation 0

Vibrance -4

 

Gamma:

28

 

Lighting:

Brightness 59

Contrast -84

Exposure 100

Black 0

White 0

 

 

Video Layer 5

This layer limits the oversaturation of blue and red, and green to a lesser extent.

Applied Effects:

 

Opacity:

Subtract

 

Image Control:

Brightness -100

Contrast 100

Hue 0

Saturation 100

 

Channel Mixer:

Red-Red 22 (This setting controls the amount of red bleed such as in red lights.)

Red-Green 200

Red-Blue 33

Red-Const 0

Green-Red -50

Green-Green 33

Green-Blue 30

Green Const 0

Blue-Red 20

Blue-Green 0

Blue-Blue 135 (This setting controls the amount of blue bleed, for example around the                           Death Star Explosion. Increasing this number decreases the blue bleed.)

Blue-Const 0

 

Adjustments:

 

Color:

Hue 0

Lightness 0

Saturation 0

Vibrance 0

 

Gamma:

6

 

Lighting:

Brightness 0

Contrast 0

Exposure 0

Black 0

White 0

 

Video Layer 6

This layer tweaks the color and luminosity of the highlights.

Applied Effects:

 

Opacity:

Screen

 

Image Control:

Brightness 0

Contrast 110

Hue 0

Saturation 100

 

Channel Mixer:

Red-Red -200

Red-Green -200

Red-Blue -200

Red-Const -200

Green-Red -200

Green-Green -200

Green-Blue -200

Green Const -200

Blue-Red -150

Blue-Green 0

Blue-Blue 200

Blue-Const -15

 

Adjustments:

 

Color:

Hue 0

Lightness 0

Saturation 0

Vibrance 0

 

Gamma:

17

 

Lighting:

Brightness -100

Contrast 100

Exposure -100

Black 0

White 0

 

 

Video Layer 7

This layer regulates the highlight layers below it, fixing color casts by removing colors.

Applied Effects:

 

Opacity:

Subtract

 

Image Control:

Brightness 0

Contrast 100

Hue 0

Saturation 100

 

Channel Mixer:

Red-Red 0

Red-Green 0

Red-Blue -100

Red-Const 0

Green-Red 5

Green-Green 25

Green-Blue -60

Green Const 0

Blue-Red 40

Blue-Green 80

Blue-Blue -200

Blue-Const 0

 

Adjustments:

 

Color:

Hue 0

Lightness 0

Saturation 0

Vibrance 0

 

Gamma:

10

 

Lighting:

Brightness 0

Contrast 0

Exposure 0

Black 0

White 0

 

Video Layer 8 (Original video used as a comparison)

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Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)

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I have applied these settings in Premiere Elements (and triple checked them) but the picture is looking very green.

Any ideas? (Please ignore the text, I am currently using a trial version)

Nevermind I figured out the issue. :)